Vince Shiers 
A new version of PAS 96 has been published on 28th of May 2026, replacing PAS 96:2017. RQA experts were part of the review panel who were consulted in the development of the new version. The TACCP approach is widely used by food businesses around the world to improve their resilience and response mechanisms to malicious … Read more
By Vince Shiers – Managing Director. OK, so many of us have seen the film “Titanic,” or even the older film, “A Night to Remember.” We have also seen documentaries about the Titanic disaster. But I am probably in a pretty small group of living people who have read the transcriptions of the official British … Read more
This is a far-reaching strategy, published on 12th June 2024. It involves collaboration by three federal agencies, the EPA, USDA and FDA, as well as private and public sector partners. There are many reasons for the food loss and food waste, but one of these is food that is not consumed due to product recalls … Read more
RQA Group, leading consultancy in product recall, crisis management, and food & product safety, has provided expert services in Australia and New Zealand for many years. RQA offer crisis response services to its insurance clients, brokers and their product recall insurance clients through a strategic relationship with Intelligent Risks (IR), Australia’s foremost management consultancy specialising … Read more
It’s time to reveal the product recall numbers for the first half of 2023. We have crunched the numbers and analysed the trends from around the world and produced our summary of the recall insights from across food, consumer products & automotive, The key facts from the first 6 months of the year are: Click … Read more
What is the GPSR? On 23rd May 2023, the European Parliament and Council published the new General Product Safety Regulation ((EU) 2023/988) (GPSR), replacing the previous General Product Safety Directive (2001/95/EC) (GPSD). As this is now a regulation as opposed to a directive, it will be directly applicable to all members states, with little room … Read more
RQA Group have been selected as the new product recall Crisis Consultants for MRM Group, LLC. In this role, RQA will provide 24/7 product incident support, and, using the pre-incident budget provided by MRM, risk improvement services relevant to product recall. RQA will also offer MRM expert risk engineering and claims support as required. Vince … Read more
As part of our series of articles on the Food Safety Modernization Act’s 7 Major Rules in conjunction with our product recall insurance client, Perigon, please find below a link to download our latest. This article goes into more detail on rules one and two of FSMA, which are very similar in nature and are … Read more
The Alert and Cooperation Network (ACN) consists of the Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed network (RASFF), the Administrative Assistance and Cooperation system network (AAC) and the Agri-Food Fraud Network (FFN). Since 2021, notifications concerning the three networks are transmitted through a unique online platform, iRASFF, to enable a smooth exchange of information between … Read more
We have been busy collating, reviewing and analysing the product recall data from the first 3 months of this year, for food, consumer products and auto, from across the world and you can download the bulletin below. Key takeaways are: · Allergen issues are now the leading cause of recall in US FDA data · … Read more